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

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

"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."

"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."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"Optimization hinders evolution."

"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."

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

"The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons."

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer."

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

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

"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."

"Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over."

"The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

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

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

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

"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…"

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

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

"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…"

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

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

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

"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

"Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

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

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

"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…"

"A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long."

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

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

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

"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…"