I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

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

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

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

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

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet