This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.

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.