"INSERT DISK THREE' ? But I can only get two in the drive !"

"There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world."

"God never made his work for man to mend."

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

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

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

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

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"One man's constant is another man's variable."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

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

"Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then…"

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

"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"To go forward, you must backup."

"It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it."

"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…"

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

"You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people."

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

"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."

"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.…"

"The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With…"

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility."

"Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down…"

"Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare."

"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."

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

"MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way."

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."

"A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing."

"The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop."

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

"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."

"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."

"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…"

"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."

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