I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.

The pace of change in [software] pricing models is accelerating. A lot of software companies are still trying to figure out how to do multi-core processors .?.?. and still get the same level of profitability they had before.

You have to be cognizant that when you're writing something on the Internet, the wrong people could be reading it.

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks