As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Form follows failure.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings.

If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

Nobody ever learns anything.

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?