"It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

"We must include in any language with which we hope to describe complex data-processing situations the capability for …"

"At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a micro…"

"At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. B…"

"I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?""

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it…"

"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."

"I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, a…"

"[The Computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm."

"I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; t…"