A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.

I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.

Dedicate yourself to expressing your best.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.