"In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world."

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

"Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology."

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer."

"The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones."

"Ever notice how fast Windows runs ? — Neither did I."

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

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute."

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

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

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

"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."

"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."

"I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic."

"The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines."

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

"Technology favors horrible people."

"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…"

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper."

"So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf."

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

"What boots up must come down."

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

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

"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."

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

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

"[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

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

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

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"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."

"The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."

"I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it."

"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

"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."

"A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long."

"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…"

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."