So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.