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

"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this. Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long…"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"Optimization hinders evolution."

"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

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

"First and foremost, the Internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity."

"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures."

"We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people."

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

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

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."

"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."

"It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of…"

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."

"WinNT: All the headaches of Unix, but in a pretty, windowed environment."

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

"The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"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."

"Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies."

"Of course, the best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"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."

"Apparently, Windows 98 is going to be renamed 'Diana, Princess of Windows'. It's overrated, overpriced, consumes loads of resources and crashes spectacularly..."

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth…"

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

"Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.‘ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever."

"The more I C, the less I see."

"One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet."

"Home is where you hang your @."

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

"Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you."

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

"If a program is useful, it will have to be changed."

"The effort required to correct an error increases exponentially with time."

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

"Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

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

"Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble."

"Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it."

"There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly."

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

"The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills."