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.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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.

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

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

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

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.