“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

We don’t grow older we grow riper.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.

I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.