The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Common Core is a big win for education.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.