"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."

"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."

"High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring."

"There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."

"My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers."

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

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

"Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return."

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

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic."

"We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here."

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

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

"Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare."

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

"It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac."

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."

"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…"

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century…"

"I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."

"Within a computer natural language is unnatural."

"The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

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

"I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but…"

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

"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."

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."

"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."

"Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals."

"I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies."

"Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers."

"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."

"People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a…"

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job."

"In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be."

"Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down…"