"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

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

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."

"Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out,…"

"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."

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."

"We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!"

"What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak."

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

"The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously."

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

"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."

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

"When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"

"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA,…"

"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 is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge."

"Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it."

"Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't."

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

"In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."

"The new information technology—Internet and e-mail—have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

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

"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."

"If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac."

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"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.…"

"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover."

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

"It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved."

"Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment."

"People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!"

"Computers are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

"The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."