They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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.

Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

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