How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?””That depends.””On what?””On how I want to feel.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click ‘I agree’ but you don’t know what you’re agreeing to.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn’t even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus “low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit.”] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record...

No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man’s total history (including remarks put on his record by his...

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern...

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.