Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.