I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

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

You manage things and lead people.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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 do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

Manage things. Lead people.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.