To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.