Sun Microsystems Had The Right People To

In Our Society We Have Hard Nerds And Soft Nerds. The Hard Nerds Are The Ones Who Used To Have The Slide Rules At Their Belt; Now They Have Calculators. The Soft Nerds Are The Ones Who Get Violently Ill Whenever Anybody Mentions An Integral Sign.

Most Creativity Is A Transition From One Context Into Another Where Things Are More Surprising. There’s An Element Of Surprise, And Especially In Science, There Is Often Laughter That Goes Along With The "aha." Art Also Has This Element. Our Job Is To Remind Us That There Are More Contexts Than The One That We’re In - The One That We Think Is Reality.

Most Software Today Is Very Much Like An Egyptian Pyramid With Millions Of Bricks Piled On Top Of Each Other, With No Structural Integrity, But Just Done By Brute Force And Thousands Of Slaves.

Understanding- -like Civilization, Happiness, Music, Science And A Host Of Other Great Endeavors--is Not A State Of Being, But A Manner Of Traveling. This Great Road Has No Final Destination. The Journey Itself Is The Reward.

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