“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.”

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.

People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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

In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

The music industry’s very laid back while I’m very, very aggressive.

Here’s what you know: you know when you’re getting laid, and you know when it’s all over. Those are the only two things you’re aware of.