The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

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

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

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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