The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.