Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and ...

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.

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

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.