An Invention Has To Make Sense In

When You Have To Prove The Value Of Your Ideas By Persuading Other People To Pay For Them, It Clears Out An Awful Lot Of Woolly Thinking.

Life Is Not A Tour Of Gas Stations.

Early On, When Software Was Developed By Computer Scientists, Just People Working With Computers, People Passed Around Software Because That Was How You Got Computers To Do Things.

Programming Is How We Talk To The Machines That Are Increasingly Woven Into Our Lives. If You Aren't A Programmer, You're Like One Of The Unlettered People Of The Middle Ages Who Were Told What To Think By The Literate Priesthood. We Had A Renaissance When More People Could Read And Write; We'll Have Another One When Everyone Programs.

Obscurity Is A Bigger Problem For Authors Than Piracy.