I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

All men hate the nagging.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere – a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer – can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I’m just a little kid from Akron.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It’s a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you ‚play‘ with them!

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.