In Success There's A Tendency To Keep

Understanding- -like Civilization, Happiness, Music, Science And A Host Of Other Great Endeavors--is Not A State Of Being, But A Manner Of Traveling. This Great Road Has No Final Destination. The Journey Itself Is The Reward.

I Think The Trick With Knowledge Is To “acquire It, And Forget All Except The Perfume” - Because It Is Noisy And Sometimes Drowns Out One's Own “brain Voices”. The Perfume Part Is Important Because It Will Help Find The Knowledge Again To Help Get To The Destinations The Inner Urges Pick.

When I First Prepared This Particular Talk... I Realized That My Usual Approach Is Usually Critical. That Is, A Lot Of The Things That I Do, That Most People Do, Are Because They Hate Something Somebody Else Has Done, Or They Hate That Something Hasn't Been Done. And I Realized That Informed Criticism Has Completely Been Done In By The Web. Because The Web Has Produced So Much Uninformed Criticism. It's Kind Of A Gresham's Law-bad Money Drives The Good Money Out Of Circulation. Bad Criticism Drives Good Criticism Out Of Circulation. You Just Can't Criticize Anything.

I Hired Finishers Because I'm A Good Starter And A Poor Finisher.

If The Pros At Sun Had Had A Chance To Fix Java, The World Would Be A Much More Pleasant Place. This Is Not Secret Knowledge. It's Just Secret To This Pop Culture.