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.

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.

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.

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

What I've learned from those losses... Priceless.

Due to global warming, the coming winters in the local regions will become milder.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.