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.

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

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

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.

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

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

Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.