I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe. . . I am a storyteller.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
A library is a hospital for the mind. ” - Anonymous