"Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it."

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

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

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

"I have to say I was a bit shocked to see myself on the cover (TIME magazine). It's really not my style since Yahoo! is something built by a lot more people than just me.."

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light."

"A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages."

"Users truly don’t know what they want in a program until they use it."

"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."

"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…"

"Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in…"

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

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

"Double your drive space — delete Windows !"

"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…"

"A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that…"

"The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less."

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

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

"The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive."

"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 medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action."

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

"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."

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

"Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months"

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."

"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."

"It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993."

"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’."

"They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, cause if you play it forwards, it installs Windows."

"No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the…"

"Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return."

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

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

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

"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."

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly."

"I can't uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of 'Uninstall Shield'."

"We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here."

"When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything."

"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?"

"We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated."