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

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

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.

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.

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.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.