Top 100 IT Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.”

— Elon Musk

52. “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.”

— Edward Snowden

53. “An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.”

— Linus Torvalds

54. “If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”

— Alan Turing

55. “I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.”

— Linus Torvalds

56. “The most damaging phrase in the language is: ‘It’s always been done that way.’”

— Grace Murray Hopper

57. “Linux is only free if your time has no value.”

— Jamie Zawinski

58. “Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.”

— Bruce Schneier

59. “Developers, developers, developers, developers.”

— Steve Ballmer

60. “Programmers can be lazy.”

— Larry Wall

61. “See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.”

— Linus Torvalds

62. “The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.”

— Bill Gates

63. “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

— Alan Kay

64. “If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.”

— Linus Torvalds

65. “I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or ‘big thinker.’ I don’t have any lofty goals.”

— Linus Torvalds

66. “Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”

— Richard Stallman

67. “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

— Tom DeMarco

68. “If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”

— Linus Torvalds

69. “You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.”

— Daniel Keys Moran

70. “Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.”

— David Blumenthal

71. “The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.”

— Linus Torvalds

72. “Technology is best when it brings people together.”

— Matt Mullenweg

73. “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”

— Bill Gates

74. “If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

75. “If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.”

— Bruce Schneier

76. “If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”

— Bill Gates

77. “The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn’t change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.”

— Kent Beck

78. “If a user is having a problem, it’s our problem.”

— Steve Jobs

79. “Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.”

— Steve Jobs

80. “Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

81. “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.”

— Steve Jobs

82. “On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.”

— Linus Torvalds

83. “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.’”

— Linus Torvalds

84. “Data really powers everything that we do.”

— Jeff Weiner

85. “In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.”

— Linus Torvalds

86. “Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.”

— Mark Shuttleworth

87. “Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.”

— Robert C. Martin

88. “I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.”

— Elon Musk

89. “Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.”

— Geoffrey Moore

90. “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

91. “Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

92. “Accessible design is good design – it benefits people who don’t have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.”

— Steve Ballmer

93. “The monster never dies.”

— Stephen King

94. “C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

— Dennis Ritchie

95. “My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

96. “India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one’s finger.”

— Narendra Modi

97. “One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.”

— Grace Murray Hopper

98. “Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

99. “It is a global distributed database, with additions to the database by consent of the majority.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto

100. “Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

— Linus Torvalds