“Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.”

“To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.”

“I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.”

“The desire to write grows with writing.”

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

“However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.”

“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.”

“I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.”

“I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.”