"My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff."

"We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential."

"It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering."

"I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal."

"The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."

"I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way."

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

"School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged."