Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.

The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.

The Stack terraforms the host planet by drinking and vomiting its elemental juices and spitting up mobile phones.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.