"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"

"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,…"

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

"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light."

"Optimization hinders evolution."

"We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't…"

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"It would take a lot of time and effort (to repair the computers). And they can't run (programs and games) kids are interested in today. They're not even on the Internet. We wouldn't be offering them much of a carrot."

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

"After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"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."

"Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo."

"Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits."

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

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

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

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

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

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

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

"To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one…"

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."

"Any fool can use a computer. Many do."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

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

"It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises."

"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."

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

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

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

"I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic."

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

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

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

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all.…"

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."

"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."

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"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."

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

"Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline."