Donald Trump

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

William Gibson

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke

"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?"

Grace Murray Hopper

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

Leonard Brandwein

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."

Dave Barry

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

Larry Ellison

"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."

Graham Greene

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."

Alfred North Whitehead

"Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights."

Scott McNealy

"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."

Andy Grove

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."

William Gibson

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

Al Boliska

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."

Larry Wall

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."

William Gibson

"Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty."

Esther Dyson

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Gertrude Stein

"Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs."

Esther Dyson

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

Richard P. Feynman

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

Wernher von Braun

"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms."

William Gibson

"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal."

Stewart Alsop

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

Mitchell Kapor

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."

Jimmy Carter