The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Sunlight is painting.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Effective action is always unjust.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.