Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.

A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.

My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians