A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.