When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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

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

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

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

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.