"Technology favors horrible people."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."

"This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV."

"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…"

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

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

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."

"Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000."

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized…"

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

"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"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…"

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."

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

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away."

"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"

"Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits."

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

"Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes."

"After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy."

"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…"

"Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing."

"Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."

"In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."

"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country…"

"Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent."

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

"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…"

"Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies."

"If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and…"

"There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard."

"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."

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

"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."

"Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn…"

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it…"

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

"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."