I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

We regret mistakes were made.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.