"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch."

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"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…"

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

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

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

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

"Today's meters are little computers."

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over."

"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…"

"I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or…"

"Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered…"

"Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it."

"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."

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

"Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers."

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."

"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

"Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand."

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

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

"I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we."

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

"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…"

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

"I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."

"I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears."

"Optimization hinders evolution."

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."

"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are…"

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0."

"Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

"When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people…"

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to…"

"I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS."

"To iterate is human, to recurse divine."

"The more I C, the less I see."