“It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability...” — Brian Kernighan Quote

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

No matter what, the way to learn to program is to write code and rewrite it and see it used and rewrite again. Reading other people's code is invaluable as well.

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.