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

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be."

"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

"Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle."

"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,…"

"America's technology has turned in upon itself; its corporate form makes it the servant of profits, not the servant of human needs."

"I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think…"

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."

"Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them."

"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?"

"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms."

"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…"

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

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

"The only business that is ever threatened by improved technologies are those that need to be left behind."

"The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of…"

"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."

"What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."

"The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that's it."

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

"Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program"."

"The "Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."

"The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers."

"It makes life difficult ... because law changes very slowly. We have judges who did not grow up with computers and so many do not understand the technology and issues it raises."

"This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work."

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

"Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is."

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."

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

"Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are…"

"Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study."

"When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything."

"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."

"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

"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."