School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

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

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.