Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.