“The Internet? That thing is still around?”
- Homer Simpson

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.
- Andy Rooney, 60 Minutes

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
- Bill Gates, 1981

“Most software needs to be spanked”
- Alan Cooper

“Never make the user ask to ask.”
- Alan Cooper in About Face

“The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.”
- Edward Tufte, Information Design Guru

I’ve been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it’s the box it comes in.
- Donald Norman

“A good web site is not about technology. It is about communication and reaching your customers.”
- Jakob Nielsen

“Yahoo is like a good old friend, and it just works.”
- Jakob Nielsen

“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
- John F. Kennedy

“The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!”
- C3PO, Star Wars

“If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning — and the response would be, “We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more”.
- Mark Minasi

“For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
- Bill Bryson

“Just remember: you’re not a “dummy,” no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.”
- Walter Mossberg