Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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

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

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.

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

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