"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

"Technology favors horrible people."

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

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

"The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"Life is about family and technology."

"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."

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

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

"Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free."

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

"You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected."

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"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."

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

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

"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."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it."

"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."

"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."

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

"Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology."

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

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

"Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had…"

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

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones."

"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."

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."

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

"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."

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

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

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

"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…"

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"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."