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

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

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

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.