At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.