"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon."

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

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

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

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."

"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…"

"It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it."

"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."

"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…"

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs."

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon…"

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up…"

"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."

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

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"Technology does not run an enterprise, relationships do."

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet…"

"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."

"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."

"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…"

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"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."

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

"Home is where you hang your @."

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

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

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

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"Back up my hard disk ? I can't find the reverse switch !"

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

"I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or…"

"Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them."

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

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."