In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.