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.

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.

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.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.

May your home always be filled with love, laughter and happiness.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world ... when we buy it for someone else.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.