It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.