I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

You can and must understand computers now.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.