"You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected."

"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."

"Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do."

"NO, You cannot dial 911, I'm downloading my mail !!!"

"The probability of a flawless demo is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved."

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense."

"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…"

"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."

"When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop."

"I also introduce skills like using a hula hoop or jumping rope. I think many kids this age need a break from the computer or video games to learn these very important physical skills."

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."

"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…"

"In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn."

"Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon."

"The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could…"

"If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?"

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

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity."

"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…"

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."

"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."

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

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

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

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

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on."

"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."

"The sooner you start coding a program, the longer it will take."

"Home is where you hang your @."

"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."

"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With…"

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

"In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle"."

"Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

"Computers will never replace good old-fashioned human stupidity."

"One man's constant is another man's variable."

"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."

"The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive."