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"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate wi…"

"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cr…"

"I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate peri…"

"Russians are lucky - they have socialism and Stalin."

"The Jewish question is no question of humanity, and it is no question of religion; it is solely a question of political hygiene."

"The technique of management, in its human relationships, can be best described as the technique of handling or managing people, which should be based on a deep and enlightened human understanding. The…"

"As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to a…"

"echo $package has manual pages available in source form.echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."

"So pardon my cynical twist, but what are you doing with that 20,000×20,000 double-precision floating point matrix you say you need to invert today? If you answer "nutt'n, I jus kinda wondered what it'…"

"Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That's how much that paper is worth."

"I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially."

"Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is."

"Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies."

"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."

"Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"When you say, "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say, "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."

"You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language."

"Often, firms that were successful start to fail after a successful CEO departs, largely because they spent little time mentoring the successor in making successful decisions. ... I think we are seeing…"

"Every large-scale system is an. The automatic factory, the vehicular-traffic system, any military system- in the design of all these systems, primary attention should be given to the flow of informati…"

"It looks like the IT security world has hit a new low. If you work in security, and think you have some morals, I think you might want to add the tag-line "No, really, I'm not a whore. Pinky promise" …"

"Fixed energy limits have not limited the progress of nature."

"I also like to ride Segways. How much fun that is! Anybody think that's fun? I hope so... There's an awful lot of people in the world that sneer at Segways because other people are having fun. There m…"

"In the practical sense the word principle may be applied to any underlying cause of more or less correlated facts in any particular field of investigation. The word principles, as applied to organizat…"

"Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and…"

"You try to claim that the GPLv3 causes "More developers", and that, my idiotic penpal, is just crazy talk that you made up."

"Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses …"

"The hard parts were: writing code that was fast enough, writing code that was small enough to fit in the cartridge, and writing code that would fit in the RAM. Basically everything was hard."

"I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should."

"It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun."

"The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear …"

"Tim Berners-Lee on the W3C site"

": I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his pr…"

"The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor. The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allo…"

"As for principles of law, he should know those which are necessary in the case of buildings having party walls, with regard to water dripping from the eaves, and also the laws about drains, windows, a…"

"Stallman's answers to 25 user-submitted questions"

"The clumsiness of people who have to engage their brain at every step is unbearably painful to watch, at least to me, and that's what the novice-friendly software makes people do, because there's no e…"

"I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum…"

"Pure publication quantity today has become a meaningless metric. One can publish almost anything."

"It is becoming perfectly clear that the principles underlying industrial and military efficiency are the same and that a nation, to be efficient in a military sense, must first be efficient industrial…"

"For the most part, these are not new lessons, but lessons learned in different circumstances and surroundings. The fact that they are not new is of course a lesson in itself — we must continually stri…"

"PBS Nova: The Wright Brothers' Flying Machines"

"The person who merely watches the flight of a bird gathers the impression that the bird has nothing to think of but the flapping of its wings. As a matter of fact this is a very small part of its ment…"

"A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die."

"Just don't create a file called -rf."

"If the syntax is good enough for the information, it should be good enough for the meta-information."

"The discovery of America"

"You believe that we have violated the principle of freedom in your case. Yes, this is so if one understands freedom in the bourgeois sense of the term. But we have a different conception of freedom. O…"

"They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workben…"

"I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa."

"Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot."

"not only believed that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done."

"I don't get what is wrong with eating bad junky food all the time! benefits include dying earlier and saving at least 2 hours a day"

"The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination."

"It is a massively parallel drunkards' walk filtered by a Darwinian process."

"To add to this, social media was brought into operation with thousands of trolls, fake news and what have you. Today’s speed of hate-creation has only become possible because of the ground "work" done…"

"There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof. How convenient."

"I encourage people to look into the Transition Network."

"Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion."

"In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the society would kind of revel in that. We …"