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

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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

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.

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.

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

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.