The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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.
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.