J. Presper Eckert

The greatest invention of all time is the human mind.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

The computer is a tool for extending human intelligence, not replacing it.

We were building a machine that could do anything, and we didn't even know what 'anything' was yet.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

A computer without a program is like a car without an engine.

We were just trying to get the damn thing to work.

The most important thing is to keep learning.

The computer is a mirror, reflecting our own intelligence, or lack thereof.

Don't underestimate the power of a good idea.

We built a machine that could solve problems faster than any human, and then we had to figure out what problems to solve.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The computer is a tool for liberation, not enslavement.

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

We were just a bunch of guys in a lab, trying to make something work.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday's logic.

The computer is a blank canvas, waiting for us to paint our ideas upon it.

The only way to do great work is to be truly passionate about what you do.

We were so focused on the 'how' that we sometimes forgot the 'why'.