"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology."

"There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard."

"The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved."

"We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and…"

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life."

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones."

"I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think…"

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

"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"We're changing the world with technology."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new…"

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by…"

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts."

"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

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

"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…"

"There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone."

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

"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…"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

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

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

"In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble."

"Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study."

"The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

"The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that."

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."

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

"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized…"

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

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

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"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."

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

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

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

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

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

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features."