The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

Computers make people stupid.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

Vampires are people too. They've got their own problems, they just drink blood.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died.