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.

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.

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.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

I'm very honest about where I'm coming from.

If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.