The purpose of computers is human freedom.

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.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.