People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

The shortest distance between two idiots is a conga line.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

I told (Anze) Kopitar 'You aren't touching the puck enough. I don't like your breakout.' I think Kopitar can make magic with the puck

The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

The older you get the more you live in the past