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

This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.

But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!

I remember the first time I saw the ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ video.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.

Right now, vee was the only person i could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.