It's Easier To Invent The Future Than

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

In Success There's A Tendency To Keep On Doing What You Were Doing.

Basic Would Never Have Surfaced Because There Was Always A Language Better Than Basic For That Purpose. That Language Was Joss, Which Predated Basic And Was Beautiful. But Basic Happened To Be On A Ge Timesharing System That Was Done By Dartmouth, And When Ge Decided To Franchise That, It Started Spreading Basic Around Just Because It Was There, Not Because It Had Any Intrinsic Merits Whatsoever.

If You're Utopian, You're Never Satisfied.

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.