I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

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

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

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

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