"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always are --or are indistinguishable from-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amouts of free time."
-- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."
-- Larry Wall
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
-- unknown
"Code Red was supposed to be a wake-up call, but it is obvious that many hit 'snooze,' rolled over, and went back to sleep."
-- Tim Mullen on the slammer worm
"But also, he saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for the technology itself."
-- William Gibson, Neuromancer
"Ah, the Luftwaffe, the Washington Generals of the History Channel."
-- Homer Simpson
"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining."
-- Linus Torvalds on the SCO vs. IBM lawsuits
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-- Edsger Dijkstra