It Is Practically Impossible To Teach Good

So-called "natural Language" Is Wonderful For The Purposes It Was Created For, Such As To Be Rude In, To Tell Jokes In, To Cheat Or To Make Love In (and Theorists Of Literary Criticism Can Even Be Content-free In It), But It Is Hopelessly Inadequate When We Have To Deal Unambiguously With Situations Of Great Intricacy, Situations Which Unavoidably Arise In Such Activities As Legislation, Arbitration, Mathematics Or Programming.

Computer Science Is No More About Computers Than Astronomy Is About Telescopes, Biology Is About Microscopes Or Chemistry Is About Beakers And Test Tubes. Science Is Not About Tools. It Is About How We Use Them, And What We Find Out When We Do.

If There Is One 'scientific' Discovery I Am Proud Of, It Is The Discovery Of The Habit Of Writing Without Publication In Mind.

The Effort Of Using Machines To Mimic The Human Mind Has Always Struck Me As Rather Silly. I Would Rather Use Them To Mimic Something Better.

A Programming Language Is A Tool That Has Profound Influence On Our Thinking Habits.