The Protean Nature Of The

When The Mac First Came Out, Newsweek Asked Me What I [thought] Of It. I Said: Well, It's The First Personal Computer Worth Criticizing. So At The End Of The Presentation, Steve Came Up To Me And Said: Is The Iphone Worth Criticizing? And I Said: Make The Screen Five Inches By Eight Inches, And You'll Rule The World.

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

School Is Basically About One Point Of View - The One The Teacher Has Or The Textbooks Have. They Don't Like The Idea Of Having Different Points Of View.

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.

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