How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

I want to be owned by you.

How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthle

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.