Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Atari is a very sad story.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.