“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.

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.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age.

I probably should put a little more energy into it.

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.