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

"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."

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

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

"Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn."

"The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland."

"I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release."

"Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it."