It's All About Long-term, Sustaining Relationships.

The Internet Was Done So Well That Most People Think Of It As A Natural Resource Like The Pacific Ocean, Rather Than Something That Was Man-made. When Was The Last Time A Technology With A Scale Like That Was So Error-free? The Web, In Comparison, Is A Joke. The Web Was Done By Amateurs.

It's Easier To Invent The Future Than To Predict It.

Bad User On Device Is A Medium That Can Dynamically Simulate The Details Of Any Other Medium, Including Media That Cannot Exist Physically. It Is Not A Tool, Although It Can Act Like Many Tools. It Is The First Metamedium, And As Such It Has Degrees Of Freedom For Representation And Expression Never Before Encountered And As Yet Barely Investigated.

The Most Disastrous Thing That You Can Ever Learn Is Your First Programming Language.

Perl Is Another Example Of Filling A Tiny, Short-term Need, And Then Being A Real Problem In The Longer Term.