Work?

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
--Thomas A. Edison

Ideas, one too many!

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
--Thomas A Edison

Can you take it!

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
--Max Eastman (American Author, Journalist and Writer, 1883-1969)

if they're going to steal it, let'em steal ours!

About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

* Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in "Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998) [1]