The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality..

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas..

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born..

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing..

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

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.….

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculat….

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

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy..

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions t….

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet.

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..

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, th….

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in sci….

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

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to….

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to thi….

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it..

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

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it..

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