Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.