"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

"Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it."

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"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."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities."

"If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up."

"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…"

"Bill Gates is so rich because he got his wish when he said: 'I wish I had a nickel for every time a PC reboots'."

"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

"Vista is the the George W Bush of the technology industry."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"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."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

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

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,…"

"The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy."

"If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one."

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

"Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is."

"Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months"

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."

"Think"

"Technology does not drive change -- it enables change."

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity."

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

"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…"

"Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes."

"For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node."

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

"This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving…"

"Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do."

"Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."