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

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"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."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."

"We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf."

"Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my…"

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."

"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy."

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

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

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

"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."

"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"."

"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."

"If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one."

"These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

"In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world."

"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."

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

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

"Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light."

"An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms."

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

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"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…"

"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…"

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

"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."

"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 effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time."

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

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."

"The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."

"I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but…"

"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."

"We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun."