“I’ve often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.”

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users’ needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users’ experiences.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do.

An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

No matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that’s a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author’s work.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

The fiction I’ve written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.

One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers.