I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Color is the fruit of life.

I do miss having someone to spoil, somebody that you can just sit with for a bit.

I've also been with the same girl, Angie, since I was 15.

Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.