"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…"

"It was much more fun to program the Mark I than to operate it."

"You don't teach people how to be curious. You give them the tools through which they can express their curiosity."

"The computer is the most powerful tool ever invented. It can do anything you tell it to do, but it won't tell you what to do."

"I've always objected to doing anything over again if I had already done it once."