Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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.

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.