"Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job."

"If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways."

"If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

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

"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it."

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

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

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

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

"Any significant boost in technology could just as easily be a rigged demo."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

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

"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."

"Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm."

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

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

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

"Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

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

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

"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."

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . .…"

"Getting Information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months"

"Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable."

"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."

"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention…"

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

"The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology."

"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?"

"Build a program that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

"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."

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

"Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle."

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."