If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?
The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.
Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
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.
Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.