To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

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.

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

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

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.