I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

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.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.