"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you…"

"E-mail — When it absolutely, positively has to get lost at the speed of light."

"Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy."

"But they are useless. They can only give you answers."

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."

"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."

"I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of…"

"When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people…"

"I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or…"

"Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams."

"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…"

"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."

"The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit."

"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."

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

"We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small."

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

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of…"

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

"The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet…"

"The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology."

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out…"

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."

"My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer."

"A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."

"Los Angeles County officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms 'master' and 'slave' regarding computer hard drives, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. Additionally, the term 'e-mail' will now be called 'e-person letter', 'dumb…"

"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?"

"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…"

"One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely."

"I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece."

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

"Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process."

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

"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these…"

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

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess."

"I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful."

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

"If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything."

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them."

"You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program."

"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 first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time."

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."

"Hey ! It compiles ! Ship it !"

"Optimization hinders evolution."