Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Get the best people and train them well.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast betweenthe standards of the past and the standards of the present. Somefulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.