I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

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.

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

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.

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

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

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?