Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.