You start to think of buying desktop hardware as buying a PC by day and a server on a distributed computing architecture at night. It's cheaper than the next mainframe.

We know customers are buying new hardware [on a regular basis]. Customers recycle about one-third [of their hardware] each year. That's a very sure way to migrate over to the desktop.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.