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

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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

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.

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.