“As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.”

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.

People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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

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 that we’re going to come to.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.

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

This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

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

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.