Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: May 17, 1940
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….
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just ….
The greatest single programming language ever designed.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing..
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born..
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff..
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing ou….
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of v….
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied..
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There'….
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories..
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas..
The only way you can predict the future is to build it..
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning..
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited..
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet).
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term..
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….
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy..
When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that mos….
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, w….