"We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a ne…"

"They told me computers could only do arithmetic."

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'"

"Never, never, never take the first no. There are a certain number of people in business, industry, and government who always say no the first time you suggest something new, because they're lazy... Bu…"

"I'm not a computer scientist. I'm a mathematician. I just happen to work with computers."