"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming."

"A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete."

"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."

"I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic."

"We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem."

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

"The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It’s up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."

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

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."

"There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way."

"There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"If computers had invented humans as part of a BI program (biological intelligence), humans would have been tossed aside as barely having achieved perfect game play at Tic-Tac-Toe."

"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"

"We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!"

"Software expands to consume all available resources."

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

"Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."

"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."

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

"Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft."

"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard."

"Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet."

"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…"

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and…"

"If google made $1 everytime someone used them to find an answer to a tech support question, they would own microsoft."

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

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."

"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."

"The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."

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

"Technology: No Place for Wimps!"

"Computation has made the tree flower."

"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."

"Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits."

"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."

"Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else."

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

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology."

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."

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

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