“The greatest single programming language ever designed”

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.

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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

Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.

This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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

There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,

The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.

Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.