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

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.