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

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

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

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

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

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.