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

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

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

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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