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

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

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

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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.

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