“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”

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.

If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that’s not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they’re also doing good-adding value to the world.

Don’t a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Smile and smile often. Smile regularly. Smile when you don’t feel like it and you will feel like it when you smile.