Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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.