We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.