Most Software Today Is Very Much Like

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.

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.

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

As Far As Apple Goes, It Was A Different Company Every Few Years From The Time I Joined In 1984.

The Greatest Single Programming Language Ever Designed