Sometimes the thing you're most afraid of is the thing that will set you free.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
The challenge in computer science is not just to solve problems, but to understand why they are problems in the first place.
The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered.