"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

"It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot."

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent."

"I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes."

"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 effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time."

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

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

"A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing."

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"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…"

"The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

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

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

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them."

"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are…"

"As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws."

"Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work."

"Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . .…"

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon…"

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

"A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures…"

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

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

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

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

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

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

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’."

"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."

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

"We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people."

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday."