Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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