“While making art you should just do what is in your heart.”

In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.

Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.

Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.

Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.

There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.

English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,

When somebody has convinced you that you’re not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Look up from what you’re doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you’re in.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.

Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.