"Kids today have so many advantages I never had. There's no telling what I could've accomplished with a home computer and a handgun."

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

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

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

"The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."

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

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

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

"That’s what’s cool about working with computers. They don’t argue, they remember everything, and they don’t drink all your beer."

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."

"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

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

"This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment."

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country…"

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth…"

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

"We hope that the Internet becomes even more affordable and more ubiquitous over time, and our mission at Yahoo! is to continue to keep our services available AND useful on all these platforms."

"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…"

"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,…"

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"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."

"It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins."

"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."

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

"There are broken toilets left there, old computers and miscellaneous garbage. They are totally unsupervised. The recycling company is good, but when people want to dump trash, they dump trash."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time."

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why ? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on…"

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

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

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

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’."

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

"Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days."

"Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++?"

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

"Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do."

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

"We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and…"

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

"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."