"I never met a computer I didn't like."

"It was much more fun to program the Mark I than to operate it."

"I don't think I'm a genius. I just work hard."

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'... At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need someth…"

"I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic."