Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

God always takes the simplest way.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new. 

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. 

Perceptions are often misplaced.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

 Even  P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E ends with the letter 'E.' There can be no patience after that.