We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adequacy is sufficient.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

I am the queen of hashtags! I love hashtags. I think in hashtags. I wish I could write everything in hashtag.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?