Here are some different computer-related quotes that I have gathered. Forgive me if some of them are distintly Mac-oriented, but I'm a Mac user, and this is my website, so that's just the way it is.
Some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest.
-- Thomas Penfield Jackson, U.S. District Judge
I don't do .INI, .BAT, .DLL, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby.
-- Fritz Anderson
The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks on.
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN.
-- Alan Perlis
DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
-- New York Times, November 26, 1991
640K [of memory] ought to be enough for anybody.
-- Bill Gates (1981)
To see tomorrow's PC, look at today's Macintosh.
-- BYTE Magazine, October 1995
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
-- Bill Gates
Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
-- David Ferrier
If an infinite number of computer programmers programmed for an infinite number of years, they would eventually come up with a working operating system. Bill Gates, being impatient, gave them two days and took the first one that was finished.
-- Anonymous
Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.
-- Anonymous
You recommend Macs to your friends, and Intel machines to those whom you don't mind billing by the hour.
-- Anonymous
Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.
-- Bill Gates, 1983 (New York Times, 25 Sep 1983, p. F2)
Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.
-- Jon Katz, Hotwired
Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
-- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun
It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'-- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.
-- Steven C. Meyer
Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.
-- Dennis Miller
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
-- Ernest Jan Plugge
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
-- David Pogue, MacWEEK magazine
Macintosh - we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.
-- Douglas Adams, Author
I have yet to witness an incident where the PC bailed the Mac out of a problem.
-- Aaron D. Lewis
Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.
-- David Pogue