"We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated."

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my…"

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf."

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

"To go forward, you must backup."

"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

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

"There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it."

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation."

"Any non-trivial program contains at least one error."

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

"A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Saying that most of the computer was filled with personal images is simply not accurate."

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

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo."

"It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators."

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

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

"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

"Technology favors horrible people."

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.…"

"The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV."

"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."

"The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics."

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check."

"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."