“Something else has happened with computers.”

“A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.”

“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”

“Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”

“Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.”

“You can't trust the internet.”

“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”

“I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.”

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”