The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

I write my programs primarily for myself.

You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

Everybody should be entitled to one lie one failing one infidelity.

The greatest gift is our own eyes sense of smell and abilities to deduce.

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

My left hand is my bad hand. I spank it with my right hand. You might call it clapping but I call it discipline.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.