“Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.”

“Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.”

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.”

“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”

“I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.”

“Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.”

“Technology is anything invented after you were born.”

“Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.”