When Alan Kay speaks, I want to hear every word he says. Or read it, at least. This talk is about the abysmal state of computer science.

When people react instantly, they're not thinking, they're doing a table lookup.

Not particularly relevant, but a neat quote nevertheless... Here's another one I wholeheartedly agree with:

Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.

The one thought I came away with after reading this was: thinking takes time.