"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"If a program is useful, it will have to be changed."

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With…"

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"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."

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

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then…"

"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

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

"You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."

"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."

"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,…"

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

"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."

"The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could…"

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

"Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't."

"They're growing at three to four times the personal computer market."

"It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of…"

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

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

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."

"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…"

"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."

"We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms."

"A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete."

"A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within…"

"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.…"

"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"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."