Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.