What hacking is having the attitude of playful cleverness. Doesn't matter just what you're doing - you could be writing computer programs, writing music, sneaking around on a roof of a building where the authorities say people aren't supposed to go or sneaking around abandoned subway tunnels, or writing a book, you could be playing a peculiar joke on people - almost anything you could do, if you do it with a spirit of playful cleverness and with intense joyous commitment is hacking. -- Richard Stallman

We are all tied up in interlocking stories and painfully aware that we are at the intersection of all sorts of stories and we don't know when we're the star and when we are a role player, when we're the hero and when we're the villain, and when we don't matter. -- Mark Bernstein

For me, escape begins with an internal change–discernment. If nothing changes in our understanding, we remain trapped. I’m not interested in some Matrix ending, some brutal, fatuous demarcation between the physical and virtual world. The only way to get anywhere in howling dogs is to stop consuming and start paying attention. -- Porpentine about his hypertext game 'Howling Dogs'

Man does not live by reason. In a situation not covered by some catch phrase he is helpless. -- Edna St.Vincent Millay

We should inspire otherwise we expire.

Keep your head above your heart. -- instruction after cataract surgery

Art is art. Everything else is everything else. -- Ad Reinhardt

Don't confuse the spirit with the body, or the soul with the machine.

In America, you're famous for your latest work; in Europe, for your greatest work. -- Orson Welles

The oneness on which visions of reality are imposed. -— Jim Raschick

Just think -- our faces are on the fronts of our heads! -- Marlene Mallicoat

The printing press decentralized the role of gatekeeper. -- Cullen Murphy

I CALLED AN EMERGENCY LINE:
"I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU. YOUR STORY IS YOUR OWN, NOBODY ELSES."