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

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."

"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare."

"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."

"They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far."

"Worth noting: running 'reboot -h' does NOT produce a helpful usage message."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes."

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things."

"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."

"These are best-of-breed computers for consumers looking for the best technology available for advanced multimedia and entertainment applications."

"Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?"

"Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."

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

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

"Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet."

"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. . . .…"

"Paper returns done by hand have an 80 percent accuracy rate, or 20 percent error rate. E-file has more than a 99 percent accuracy rate, because the computer does all the work for you."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

"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…"

"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."

"I wish life had an Undo function."

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."

"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."

"As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable.""

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

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

"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."

"First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you.""

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

"Good code is its own best documentation."

"AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive."

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

"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…"

"There's no set architecture in Linux. All roads lead to madness."

"I get mail, therefore I am."

"Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere."

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it."

"The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces."

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

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