People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.