“It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.”

“I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.”

“After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.”

“I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.”

“No one messes around with a nerds computer and escapes unscathed.”

“Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.”

“That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feetthe feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could ne...”