Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.