“When I first prepared this particular talk…”

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.

The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society.

It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.

Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!