We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

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.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.