Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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