I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

No man has been able to do everything he wants without experiencing failures first.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.