As Far As Apple Goes, It Was

To Get The Medium's Magic To Work For One's Aims Rather Than Against Them Is To Attain Literacy.

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.

I Don't Know How Many Of You Have Ever Met Dijkstra, But You Probably Know That Arrogance In Computer Science Is Measured In Nano-dijkstras.

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.

It's All About Long-term, Sustaining Relationships.