At a recent meeting in Snowmass, Colorado, a participant from Los Angelesfainted from hyperoxygenation, and we had to hold his head under theexhaust of a bus until he revived.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimateknowledge of its ugly side. ― James Baldwin

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. ― Albert Einstein

What we do not understand we do not possess. ― Goethe

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough tomake the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. Ifwe value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard forpersonal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computinga part of our lives? ― Alan Kay, "Computer Software", Scientific American, September 1984

Objects on your screen are closer than they appear.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

I love living in the future. ― Bill Cheswick

I program, therefore I am.

The superfluous is very necessary. ― Voltaire