"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…"

"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."

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

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."

"eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system."

"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."

"Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users ?"

"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 term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"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…"

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."

"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop."

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

"This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment."

"The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive."

"Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"It was a pivotal moment in the history of computers and the history of advertising."

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

"Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work."

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

"Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away."

"Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow."

"Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals."

"What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak."

"Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary."

"I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself — as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."

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

"I hope that the internet will get to become ubiquitous and affordable, and if that's achieved, I think it'll be a big part of people's lives - for the better."

"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."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy."

"Windows 95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare."

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

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

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in."

"Macintosh computer are easy to use. It's also easy to stick your hand in a wood chipper."

"Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited."

"The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion...…"

"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."