Not Alan Kay

When it was hard to do _anything_ whether good or bad, enough time was taken so that the result was usually good. Now we can make things almost trivially, but most of the designs are trivial as well. This is inverse vandalism: the making of things because you can.

Nope. Emoticons existed on the PLATO IV, a decade prior. Just another example of the computing world forgetting about the 70s.

I used to be a moron. Then I had two changes in perspective. Now I’m a genius.

I’d still be worried.

Twitter is “Reverse Vandalism as a Service”

I’m actually more of a Dumbledore.

Most of this is right, and Adele is the best. But please don’t blame us for Java!

Actually people who are serious about OSes should ignore browsers entirely. Come up with something better. The WWW was done by a bunch of amateurs.

I hire finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor

I've often said I read 100s of books a year. This actually a slight underestimate. It's closer to about 100 books a week.

Everything is an object, if you think about it

Sorry about the GUI