Don't Worry About What Anybody Else Is

In Our Society We Have Hard Nerds And Soft Nerds. The Hard Nerds Are The Ones Who Used To Have The Slide Rules At Their Belt; Now They Have Calculators. The Soft Nerds Are The Ones Who Get Violently Ill Whenever Anybody Mentions An Integral Sign.

Every Technology Really Needs To Be Shipped With A Special Manual - Not How To Use It But Why, When, And For What.

Possibly The Only Real Object-oriented System In Working Order. (about Internet)

Sun Microsystems Had The Right People To Make Java Into A First-class Language, And I Believe It Was The Sun Marketing People Who Rushed The Thing Out Before It Should Have Gotten Out.

The Idea That Hardware On Networks Should Just Be Caches For Movable Process Descriptions And The Processes Themselves Goes Back Quite A Ways. There's A Real Sense In Which Ms And Apple Never Understood Networking Or Operating Systems (or What Objects Really Are), And When They Decided To Beef Up Their Oss, They Went To (different) Very Old Bad Mainframe Models Of Os Design To Try To Adapt To Personal Computers.