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.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

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

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

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.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.