It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Focusing is about saying No.

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.