If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

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.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

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

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.