Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.