"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light."

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and…"

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

"I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears."

"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."

"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…"

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

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"Any non-trivial program contains at least one error."

"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers."

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

"David and I and the rest of the Yahoos here really believe that the internet should remain as free as possible. At the same time we are a business and have fiscal responsibilities."

"Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products."

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

"The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which."

"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…"

"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…"

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

"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 get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

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

"Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent."

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

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

"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."

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

"Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."

"The computer is a moron."

"A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"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."

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

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

"I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better."

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

"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"."

"In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble."

"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."

"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

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

"There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly."

"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…"

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