Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

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.

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

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.