Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.