The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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

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

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.