“Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.”

“My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.”

“Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.”

“Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!”

“Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.”

“Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

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

“They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.”

“The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.”

“That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.”

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”

“My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.”

“Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.”

“I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.”

“To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.”

“So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.”

“I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.”

“This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.”

“Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.”

“It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.”