Possibly The Only Real Object-oriented

Computer Literacy Is A Contact With The Activity Of Computing Deep Enough To Make The Computational Equivalent Of Reading And Writing Fluent And Enjoyable. As In All The Arts, A Romance With The Material Must Be Well Under Way. If We Value The Lifelong Learning Of Arts And Letters As A Springboard For Personal And Societal Growth, Should Any Less Effort Be Spent To Make Computing A Part Of Our Lives?

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.

Technology Is Anything Invented After You Were Born, Everything Else Is Just Stuff.

Any Medium Powerful Enough To Extend Man's Reach Is Powerful Enough To Topple His World.

The Idea That Hardware On Networks Should Just Be Caches For Movable Process Descriptions And The Processes Themselves Goes Back Quite A Ways. There's A Real Sense In Which Ms And Apple Never Understood Networking Or Operating Systems (or What Objects Really Are), And When They Decided To Beef Up Their Oss, They Went To (different) Very Old Bad Mainframe Models Of Os Design To Try To Adapt To Personal Computers.