Mathematicians Are Like Managers - They Want

Simplicity Is A Great Virtue But It Requires Hard Work To Achieve It And Education To Appreciate It. And To Make Matters Worse: Complexity Sells Better.

Probably I Am Very Naive, But I Also Think I Prefer To Remain So, At Least For The Time Being And Perhaps For The Rest Of My Life.

Lisp Has Jokingly Been Described As "the Most Intelligent Way To Misuse A Computer." I Think That Description Is A Great Compliment Because It Transmits The Full Flavour Of Liberation: It Has Assisted A Number Of Our Most Gifted Fellow Humans In Thinking Previously Impossible Thoughts.

Computer Science Is No More About Computers Than Astronomy Is About Telescopes.

I Would Therefore Like To Posit That Computing's Central Challenge, How Not To Make A Mess Of It, Has Not Yet Been Met.