You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

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.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.

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.

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