We Cannot Predict The Future, But We

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.

Don't Worry About What Anybody Else Is Going To Do. The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Invent It.

Lisp Isn't A Language, It's A Building Material.

Technology Is Anything That Wasn't Around When You Were Born.

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.