Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.