Making things easy is hard.

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.

Words of others, helps weave our feathers.

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

If you are an expressive player, people can feel that. It is an emotional thing and becomes an extension of yourself.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.