All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no read more

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one read more

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.

The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and human stupidity.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power read more

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.