"Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to…"

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

"I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing."

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

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."

"Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply."

"An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms."

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

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

"Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case."

"If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill pens."

"I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears."

"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human."

"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…"

"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…"

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

"The Internet is the end of civilizations, cultures, interests and ethics."

"We started putting together a "hotlist" of favorite sites from David and myself, and we called it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" Before we knew it, people from all over the world were using this database that we…"

"'Intel Inside': The world's most widely used warning label."

"If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some."

"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. . . .…"

"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."

"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…"

"We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation."

"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."

"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."

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

"Technology has the shelf life of a banana."

"PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."

"Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers."

"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."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

"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."

"There's a great desire to be computer-savvy among those 50 and older. They're really hungry for it."

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

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

"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…"

"Home is where you hang your @."

"Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be."

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."

"Inside every small program is a large program struggling to get out."

"Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to…"

"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"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."