“When I first prepared this particular talk…”

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’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Change is easy, except for the changed part.

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

My whole life, I’ve been responding in a positive way and keeping a positive mind, keeping God first in my heart, in my mind.

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with “right fit” prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis.

I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first.