JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.

Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows

Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion.

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.

With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn't even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn't think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.