"Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change."

"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

"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."

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."

"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."

"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."

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

"In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle"."

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

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

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

"Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that."

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

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

"If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and…"

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

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"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."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive."

"When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything."

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

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

"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."

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

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

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

"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With…"

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

"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."

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly."

"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…"

"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."

"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."

"Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program"."

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe."

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it…"

"The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."

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

"In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn."

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."