Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to program, even though very few will become professional programmers.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

With 'Scratch,' we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.

I always joke that they're all like my children, so I love them all, but I would be lying if I didn't admit that 'Wonder Woman' has an affinity for me.