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

"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."

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

"We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?"

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in."

"Today's meters are little computers."

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

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."

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

"Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is."

"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…"