So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

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.

Life was simpler when we thought no one cares about what we think.

emotion untempered by reason is social suicide

Most of the people that doubt other people's dreams do so because they don't even believe in their own dreams.

Republican and Democrat are simply two different factions of the same ruling party, and their congressional battles are primarily over political spoils, not political ideology

Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him. That's the part Shaun doesn't know. I don't intend to be an only child for long.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.