"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light."

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?"

"The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits."

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

"If a program is useless, it will have to be documented."

"I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was…"

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."

"I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS."

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

"Users /nm./: collective term for those who use computers. Users are divided into three types: novice, intermediate and expert. Novice Users: people who are afraid that simply pressing a key might break their computer. Intermediate Users: people who don't know how to…"

"The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make…"

"What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak."

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program."

"The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

"When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people…"

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then…"

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

"The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

"Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or…"

"God never made his work for man to mend."

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."