"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

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

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

"I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think…"

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."

"Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble."

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

"Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck."

"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…"

"The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved."

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

"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be."

"Results eventually reach a point at which a finer mesh no longer yields an appreciable difference. This type of convergence study helps generate accurate solutions with meshes that are sufficiently dense and yet not overly demanding of computer resources."

"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."

"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,…"

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

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

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

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

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

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

"It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor."

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

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

"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window."

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."

"There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs."

"To go forward, you must backup."

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

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly."

"It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival."

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

"Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft."

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"My understanding is their objective is to increase their capacity for the Internet, search engines. All I know is there's a lot of computers."

"Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things."

"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…"

"Technology does not drive change -- it enables change."

"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."

"Only ten percent of the code in any given program will ever execute."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."

"A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."

"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."