"Why do you sit there and ask me questions? Why don't you get up and do something?"

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things."

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

"We're all going to be replaced by a computer. You'll be sitting around and the computer will say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, you're not needed today.'"

"If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but... to build systems of comp…"