If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.]

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

Nobody can do it for you.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.