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

School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.

I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.

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.

My son’s homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down

So I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then.

Don’t think whether it’s a hit or not and people will get you.

The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience.

Forever, the way we’ve done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last.