“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

“But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.”

“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”

“The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.”

“I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.”

“Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.”

“There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.”

“If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.”

“When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.”

“I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.”

“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”

“We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.”

“Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.”

“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?”

“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.”

“I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.”

“Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.”

“We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.”