"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…"

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

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

"If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up."

"Technology makes the world a new place."

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light."

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"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."

"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…"

"We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."

"Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo."

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"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."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

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

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology."

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck."

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the…"

"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

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

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

"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."

"Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent."

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

"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."

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

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

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and…"

"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."

"We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small."

"Windows is just DOS in drag."

"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"