It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt. A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.