"Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.""

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

"Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."

"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."

"At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?""