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.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

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.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.