"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

"Programming is an unnatural act."

"The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

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

"I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that…"