"The wonderful thing about a computer is that you can make it do exactly what you want it to do."

"The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people."

"The trouble with people is, they don't want to think."

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'... At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need someth…"

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