The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

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 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.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Many Christians would prefer to hear “What a great guy” from the crowd rather than “Well done, good and faithful servant” from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?

The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

You really don't have to worry about your spouse, as long as you trust him or her. If you trust your spouse or whoever you're in a relationship with, everybody else doesn't matter.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.