Don't Worry About What Anybody Else Is

The Flip Side Of The Coin Was That Even Good Programmers And Language Designers Tended To Do Terrible Extensions When They Were In The Heat Of Programming, Because Design Is Something That Is Best Done Slowly And Carefully.

An Important Technology First Creates A Problem And Then Solves It.

[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. People Are Willing To Pay You If You're Any Good At All, And You Have Plenty Of Time For Screwing Around.

When The Mac First Came Out, Newsweek Asked Me What I [thought] Of It. I Said: Well, It's The First Personal Computer Worth Criticizing. So At The End Of The Presentation, Steve Came Up To Me And Said: Is The Iphone Worth Criticizing? And I Said: Make The Screen Five Inches By Eight Inches, And You'll Rule The World.

Television Should Be The Last Mass Communication Medium To Be Naively Designed And Put Into The World Without A Surgeon-general's Warning.