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

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.

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.

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.

Early morning exercise will keep you active for the entire day.

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

Don't spend money that you don't have to impress people that you don't like

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will eventually find their perfect home.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens.