"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

"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."
— Stephen W. Hawking

"Any idiot can put up a website."
— Patricia Briggs (Blood Bound)

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"
— Steve Jobs

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. "
— Roger Ebert

"I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.""
— Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian)

"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."
— Dave Barry

"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."
— Stephen W. Hawking

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila."
— Mitch Ratcliffe

"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
— Larry Niven

"The Internet - billions of electrons with nothing better to do."
— Coyt D. Waters

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats. "
— Dave Platt

"Computers don't kill books; people do."
— Douglas Rushkoff

"... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it."
— Michael Crichton (The Terminal Man)

"If the automobile had followed the same development 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 Cringely

"Those who are opposed to the use of computers to teach generally believe the computers to be 'cold' and 'inhuman.' The teacher is considered 'warm' and 'human.' This view is questionable on both sides."
— Theodor Nelson

"If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine."
— Sherry Turkle

"The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."
— Wernher Von Braun

"Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again."
— Charles Stross (The Atrocity Archives)

"Oh drat these computers, they're so naughty and so complex, I could pinch them. --Marvin the Martian"
— Looney Tunes

"In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear."
— John Dvorak