50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.