"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

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

"Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do."

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

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

"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."

"Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . .…"

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

"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."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things."

"The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software."

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life."

"As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable.""

"Programming is an unnatural act."

"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."

"One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth…"

"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."

"The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity."

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."

"Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity."

"Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that"

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had…"

"If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make…"

"Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills."

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

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

"We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we…"

"Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will its most harmful error be discovered."

"If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one."

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack."

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

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can…"

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."