"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."

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

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

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

"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."

"To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one…"

"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed."

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

"It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises."

"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."

"It's just like a computer. The more you load up, the slower it gets, the more issues arise."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

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

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

"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."

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"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."

"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."

"Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections."

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

"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

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

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

"We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we…"

"Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips.""

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

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

"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?"

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

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

"Today's meters are little computers."

"INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !"

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."

"If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with…"

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything."

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."

"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."

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

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

"If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to…"