Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic ….

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….

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade….

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet..

The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of progra….

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….

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enj….

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984..

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points..

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it..

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough..

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

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brai….

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started ….

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….

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine..

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

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points.

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..

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not….

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what..