Computer Languages Of The Future Will Be

General Fiction Is Pretty Much About Ways That People Get Into Problems And Screw Their Lives Up. Science Fiction Is About Everything Else.

Anyone Could Learn Lisp In One Day, Except That If They Already Knew Fortran, It Would Take Three Days.

Logic Doesn't Apply To The Real World. D. R. Hofstadter And D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

What Would A Martian Visitor Think To See A Human Being Laugh? It Must Look Truly Horrible: The Sight Of Furious Gestures, Flailing Limbs, And Thorax Heaving In Frenzied Contortions.

Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be That Humans Are Doomed, Whereas Clarke's Is That Humans Are Moving On To A Better Stage Of Evolution.