Men have become the tools of their tools.
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What’s more, you deserve to be hacked.
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's boring.
Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there.
People have decided they don’t want to invent anything new anymore. To hell with them.
You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.