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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

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