There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

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.

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

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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