"If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost."

"If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive."

"It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering."

"I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal."

"If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day."

"future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: joy is found not in possessing, but in appreciating."

"I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing."