I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.