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

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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