The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

Form is the shape of content.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.