The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

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.

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.

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 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.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

Dont turn your face all the stars are out longing you.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

I've always been positive about superheroes.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.