You know, I have a LOT of books on my IPAD, but when I try to read them, I FIND myself WANDERING off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have HAPPENED to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

I often think about the MANY remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I NEVER ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often WONDER if the same dynamic occurs with our CAPACITY for creativity.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite EARLY to music and literature, and a LITTLE later to ARCHITECTURE. And I think it's STILL coming to computer science.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they TAUGHT us, and I STUCK with computer science through high school and COLLEGE.

I am, of course, a frustrated rock STAR - I'd MUCH rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. STILL, it's not a BAD life, is it? You just SIT at a computer and make stuff up.

IM is interesting because you look at your BUDDY LIST and, at a glance, see what your friends are LISTENING to, what they're WORKING on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were BOUND to the computer keyboard.

The COMPUTER DICTATES how you do something, whereas with a PENCIL you're totally free.

The traditional notion of an architect having a VISION of a BUILDING and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture WORKS, and in REALITY, the computer has a LOT of influence on design.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an ENGLISH MAJOR and didn't KNOW any COMPUTER programmers.

But there is a process that happens when you're making SOMETHING, be it a musical or a new play. That process TAKES TIME, and MISTAKES will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit DEAD ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.

U.S. COMPUTER networks and databases are under daily cyber ATTACK by nation STATES, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and INDIVIDUAL hackers.

If you're a JUVENILE delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your PARENT's house; they haven't seen you for two months. They PUT FOOD OUTSIDE your door, and you're shutting down a government of a foreign country from your computer.

I've FOUND throughout the YEARS that I needed a PLACE where I can go with no TV, no computer, no PHONE and just have no distractions and just be ABLE to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

I don't WRITE directly on to the COMPUTER because I don't THINK well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think BETTER looking down holding a PEN. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.