“Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.”

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.

Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.

But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.

And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.

I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.

I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.

I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.

It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

The fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.