“When I first prepared this particular talk…”

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.

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

The greatest single programming language ever designed

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.

People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume

Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot.

The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.

When you screen it the first couple times, you’re just trying to get the movie to work, trying to get the story to flow, trying to find out where your areas are where you have enough breath to laugh a little bit.