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

"Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by ‘they’, I mean ‘computers’. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)"

"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!"

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

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

"Apple really hasn't weighed in on the sub-$1,000 computer category. Their next step could be refreshing their current products and making pricing changes."

"Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle."

"They've grown up with the computer, so they expect things to be faster, including cooking. They like baking by adding things to a mix. In recipes, they want fewer ingredients -- seven is ideal -- and they like step-by-step pictures…"

"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."

"There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer."

"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…"

"Computers, huh? I've heard it all boils down to just a bunch of ones and zeroes.... I don't know how that enables me to see naked women, but however it works, God bless you guys."

"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."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?"

"Any given program, once deployed, is already obsolete."

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

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

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming,…"

"For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node."

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

"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."

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

"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary."

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

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

"In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm."

"Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard."

"Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"MS-DOS, an OS originally designed for a microprocessor that modern kitchen appliances would sneer at."

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

"The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software."

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

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it…"

"Unfortunately this was an older file that this person hadn't opened in quite a while. The person who uses this computer had missed it."

"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."

"I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was…"

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly."

"Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too."

"Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does."

"Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred."

"The Internet is a great way to get on the net."

"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."