“In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.”

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.

I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

I used to think I was hitting a draw at times, and the ball was still curving to the right! I still prefer to play a little fade, but I’ve had to recalibrate my visuals.

It is hard that people don’t just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

I like hard, aggressive music.