Truly new inventions take time to play out.

What happens to people like myself, who have been involved with computing for a long time, is that you begin to see how many of the 'new' ideas are simply old ones coming back into view on the swing of the pendulum, with new and faster hardware to back it up.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization.

Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.

I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.