I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

he attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.