“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.”

We can learn from IBM’s successful history that you don’t have to have the best product to become number one.

Only taking the best evidence available at the present time,

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes

Money coming in says I’ve made the right marketing decisions

There’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there’s no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I take what I see work. I’m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing,

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy.

Adequacy is sufficient.

You can’t learn anything from being perfect.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.

They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.

I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that’s why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

Hard times are when a man has worked at a job for 30 years – 30 years – and they give him a watch, kick him in the butt, and say, ‘Hey, a computer took your place, daddy.’ That’s hard times!

Computers aren’t intelligent, they only think they are.