Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.