I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

I see smoke, smoke means fire, fire means people, people means we get the hell out of here.

Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

My life has improved so much since I stopped doing interviews.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.