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.

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.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.

You must change your approach in order to change your results.

While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.