"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…"

"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"

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

"The only constant in the computer industry is change."

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