The Tree Of Research Must Be Fed

The Protean Nature Of The Computer Is Such That It Can Act Like A Machine Or Like A Language To Be Shaped And Exploited.

Some People Worry That Artificial Intelligence Will Make Us Feel Inferior, But Then, Anybody In His Right Mind Should Have An Inferiority Complex Every Time He Looks At A Flower.

Basic Would Never Have Surfaced Because There Was Always A Language Better Than Basic For That Purpose. That Language Was Joss, Which Predated Basic And Was Beautiful. But Basic Happened To Be On A Ge Timesharing System That Was Done By Dartmouth, And When Ge Decided To Franchise That, It Started Spreading Basic Around Just Because It Was There, Not Because It Had Any Intrinsic Merits Whatsoever.

The Greatest Single Programming Language Ever Designed

In Computers, Every 'new Explosion' Was Set Off By A Software Product That Allowed Users To Program Differently.