An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.