What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

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.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.