I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

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.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

I'm sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him.

I was offered $100,000 for a print. Then I woke up.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.