“Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.”

“It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.”

“Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.”

“These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.”

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”

“It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.”

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”

“Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.”

“A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.”

“We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.”

“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.”

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.”

“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”

“England is safe, if true within itself.”

“By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."”

“Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.”

“Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.”

“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.”

“Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.”

“Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”