Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

I think women are excellent social critics.