Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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

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.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.