"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare."

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

"Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light."

"Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips.""

"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."

"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."

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

"No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the…"

"When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people…"

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

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

"If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with…"

"Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free."

"One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic."

"Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources."

"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…"

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before."

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."

"If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything."

"It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute."

"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."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

"INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !"

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

"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly."

"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."

"A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer."

"If a program is useless, it will have to be documented."

"[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."

"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."

"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."

"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these…"

"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."

"People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a…"

"To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program."

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

"The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that."

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop..."