Conversations with History interview (1999)
Context: In the end of my new novel, my hero is creating a new charity, not Christian, not Buddhist, but only they are doing something for the soul of him, of the assembled young men. One day the leader reads a Bible in front of the people, the letter of Ephesians. In Ephesians there are two words: "New Man." Jesus Christ has become a New Man on the cross. We must take off the old coat of the old man. We must become the New Man. Only the New Man can do something, so you must become a New Man. My hero has no program about the future, but he believes that we must create New Man. Young men must become New Man. Old man must mediate to create New Man. That is my creed.
“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”
1970s, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
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Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)
Source: Interview with USA Today, "Mankind Must Find a New Self Awareness", Dan Neuharth and Miles White, December 14, 1982
"A Personal View of APL", IBM Systems Journal, 30 (4), 1991
“Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.”
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Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
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“Create your future from your future, not your past.”
The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”
Variant: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Source: White Teeth (2000)
“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.”
Pebbles of Wisdom