"I will be rich, but I would not have been successful had I tried to become rich."
-- Linus Torvalds
The only secure computer is one that is turned off, locked in a safe and buried 20 feet down in a secret location, and I'm not completely confident of that either.
-- Bruce Schneier
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"No! Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda (from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)
Ok, so it's not a technology quote, but I just had to include it
"I'm not saying that they were knowingly dishonest, perhaps they were simply stupid. "
"So right now the only vendor that does such a stupid thing is Microsoft."
-- Linus Torvalds on bad file system interface design - 8.3 filenames in NT (Open Sources)
"You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code."
-- Bill Gates
"You or I wouldn't buy a car where you couldn't open the hood to the car. And you say, Well, what do you know about maintaining a modern internal combustion engine? And the answer is, not very much. But being able to open up the hood to your car means that you can either try and fix it yourself, you can get Uncle Joe up the street to try and fix it, or you can take it to one of a hundred thousand repair shops across the country."
-- Bob Young, CEO, Red Hat software
"I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value, but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that."
-- Larry Wall
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
-- Albert Einstein (When asked to describe radio)
"You think it's a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that's what people want. It's not like Windows users don't have any power; I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought..."
-- Steve Jobs