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

"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover."

"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."

"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"What boots up must come down."

"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

"There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,…"

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

"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."

"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…"

"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."

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

"If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check."

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

"We're changing the world with technology."

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

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

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium / that is, of any extension of ourselves / result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by…"

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

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

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

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"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."

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

"I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very…"

"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."

"Technology does not drive change -- it enables change."

"Food for thought: A fully-protected-and-updated Windows box cannot, by definition, have an uptime of more than 30 days."

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

"Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet."

"The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now."

"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 err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"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."

"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."

"Windows is just DOS in drag."

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

"It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor."

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday."

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

"The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses…"