“Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.”

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.

The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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.

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.

It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.

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.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool – ‘Oh yeah, I’m fine, I’m on top of this’ – but I was completely lost.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.