The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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.

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 computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Change is easy, except for the changed part.