I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels

What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.