Having An Intelligent Secretary Does Not Get

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 Perfume Part Is Important Because It Will Help Find The Knowledge Again To Help Get To The Destinations The Inner Urges Pick.

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

Java And C++ Make You Think That The New Ideas Are Like The Old Ones. Java Is The Most Distressing Thing To Hit Computing Since Ms-dos.

I Made Up The Term "object-oriented," And I Can Tell You I Did Not Have C++ In Mind.

When I First Prepared This Particular Talk... I Realized That My Usual Approach Is Usually Critical. That Is, A Lot Of The Things That I Do, That Most People Do, Are Because They Hate Something Somebody Else Has Done, Or They Hate That Something Hasn't Been Done. And I Realized That Informed Criticism Has Completely Been Done In By The Web. 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. Bad Criticism Drives Good Criticism Out Of Circulation. You Just Can't Criticize Anything.