I Made Up The Term "object-oriented," And

There Is The Desire Of A Consumer Society To Have No Learning Curves. This Tends To Result In Very Dumbed-down Products That Are Easy To Get Started On, But Are Generally Worthless And/or Debilitating.

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.

Sun Microsystems Had The Right People To Make Java Into A First-class Language, And I Believe It Was The Sun Marketing People Who Rushed The Thing Out Before It Should Have Gotten Out.

The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Invent It.

Every Technology Really Needs To Be Shipped With A Special Manual - Not How To Use It But Why, When, And For What.