“Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.”

They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.

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.

When I took the job as Estée Lauder’s creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love taking our heritage and making it modern.

It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

I think that’s the biggest mistake men make on the first date.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend.