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

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.

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.

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.

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.

He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.

Never go anywhere without condiments. Condiments are our friends.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.