The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.

Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go..

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.