"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

"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."

"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."

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

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

"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

"In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg."

"Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well."

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

"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…"

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

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

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

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

"No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the…"

"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

"I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was…"

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

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

"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!"

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

"If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

"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."

"People say Microsoft paid $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a…"

"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."

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

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

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

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

"The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that."

"The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive."

"Think"

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

"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."

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring."

"It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute."