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I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

You manage things; you lead people.

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

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

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

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

Humans are allergic to change.