The Biggest Problem We Have As Human

By The Time I Got To School, I Had Already Read A Couple Hundred Books. I Knew In The First Grade That They Were Lying To Me Because I Had Already Been Exposed To Other Points Of View. School Is Basically About One Point Of View -- The One The Teacher Has Or The Textbooks Have. They Don't Like The Idea Of Having Different Points Of View, So It Was A Battle. Of Course I Would Pipe Up With My Five-year-old Voice.

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.

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.

Television Should Be The Last Mass Communication Medium To Be Naively Designed And Put Into The World Without A Surgeon-general's Warning.

Having An Intelligent Secretary Does Not Get Rid Of The Need To Read, Write, And Draw, Etc. In A Well Functioning World, Tools And Agents Are Complementary.