Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

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

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.