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

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.

Architecture is politics.

Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

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.

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

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

If you love somebody, tell them.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.