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

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

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

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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