Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Home is pretty utopian.