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

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.

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.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

Nice to be born in this universe. Thanks dad and mom.

New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

Being up front is the only place to be.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.