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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

~ Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ~ Unknown

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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? ~ Clifford Stoll

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
~ Rick Cook

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“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
~ Mitchell Kapor

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First we thought the PC was a calculator.  Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII – and we thought it was a typewriter.  Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television.  With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.  ~Douglas Adams

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The Internet is the world’s largest library.  It’s just that all the books are on the floor. ~ John Allen Paulos

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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. ~ Steve Jobs

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Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.  ~Paul Carvel

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Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.  ~George Lundberg