“Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.”

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

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

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

“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.”

“I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlynes...”

“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make...”

“Be a good human.”

“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”

“I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.”

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

“Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”