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

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.

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

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.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.