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“Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.”

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The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

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I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most…

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How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.

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You can and must understand computers NOW.

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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much…

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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is…

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

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

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Making things easy is hard.

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I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

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Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

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I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps.

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If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made…

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It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

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Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

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Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

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My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds…

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

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As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls…

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