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

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."

"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."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."

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

"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

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

"The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces."

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

"Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere."

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

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

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."

"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."

"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…"

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

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

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is."

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

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work."

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

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

"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

"Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job."

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new…"

"I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."

"It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle."

"The more I C, the less I see."

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

"There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

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

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

"There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."

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

"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."