"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."

"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…"

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

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

"A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can…"

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

"C++ : Where friends have access to your private members."

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

"Saying your OS is the best in the world 'cause more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."

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

"Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in…"

"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."

"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."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window."

"We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make “me too” products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it’s always the next dream."

"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."

"A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that…"

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label."

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."

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

"The US Nuclear Security Administration runs the Blue Gene supercomputer. It is supposed to be the top super computer in the world ? and it runs on GNU Linux. Of the top 10 super computers in the world, seven run…"

"The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!"

"The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability."

"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."

"In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is."

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

"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."

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need."

"Steve Jobs may have the apple, but Bill Gates has the entire orchard !"

"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess."

"The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces."

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

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the…"

"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."

"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…"

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."

"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. . . .…"

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

"If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?"

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."

"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."

"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."