The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

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.

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

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

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.

People who don't respect the time you spent with them, don't know they have lost the gift of good memories.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

There are parts [in Dodd-Frank] that I don't agree with. But, in total, it is what it is.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.

I find being on set very invigorating. I never have a problem with that component of it, no matter the situation.

Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.