As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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

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

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.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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.