I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.