Perspective Is Worth 80 Iq Points.

Don't Worry About What Anybody Else Is Going To Do. The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Invent It.

The Tree Of Research Must Be Fed From Time To Time With The Blood Of Bean-counters, For It Is Its Natural Manure.

Perl Is Another Example Of Filling A Tiny, Short-term Need, And Then Being A Real Problem In The Longer Term.

I Fear - As Far As I Can Tell - That Most Undergraduate Degrees In Computer Science These Days Are Basically Java Vocational Training. I've Heard Complaints From Even Mighty Stanford University With Its Illustrious Faculty That Basically The Undergraduate Computer Science Program Is Little More Than Java Certification.

The Future Is Not Laid Out On A Track. It Is Something That We Can Decide, And To The Extent That We Do Not Violate Any Known Laws Of The Universe, We Can Probably Make It Work The Way That We Want To.