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

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

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

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

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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.