Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

For any coach in any sport, winning your first game of the season is big because it means the work you put in was worth it and at the same time, the kids listen to you a lot more now.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.