"We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream."

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

"Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis."

"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 factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

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

"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…"

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

"Technology makes the world a new place."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better."

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

"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…"

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

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

"You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected."

"For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node."

"The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which."

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

"If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same."

"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."

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"Optimization hinders evolution."

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

"I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies."

"You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people."

"There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard."

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

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

"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."

"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."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV."

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

"The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"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."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label."