“When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?”

They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.

And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.

The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

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

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

When I first prepared this particular talk…

Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.

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

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.

I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

The more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.

You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.

Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you’re free to find a boy who is attainable.

You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice.