I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

Architecture is politics.

Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

I'm only the messenger.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.