The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there’s no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

Al just destroyed them,

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.

There’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Money coming in says I’ve made the right marketing decisions.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Adequacy is sufficient.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all

This is the ultimate con game – I’m having fun and people pay me to do it.

I take what I see work. I’m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving...

Anyone who chooses to judge me only by the nine months of that period when I wasn’t an officer of no corporation [sic] and running no company, has got to be a victim of their...

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.