For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.

The future was and remains the quintessential American art form. Other nations sit back and let their futures happen; we construct ours. We can let the future happen, or take the trouble to imagine it. We can imagine it dark or bright - and in the long run, that's how it will be.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.