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.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.