“I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.”

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.

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.

The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.

Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man’s foundation.

They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. “this class isn’t going to teach me anything i don’t already know.” “vee? As in virgin?” “not so loud.” she winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.

Dont panic, i thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. You mean you can feel happy or sad or desire. A barely-there smile.

I’ve worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I’m already prepared for the game.