There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful — many more.

I think there’s probably – possibly – drugs involved

The hottest new programming language is English

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

There’s a language to proteins, there’s a language to chemicals, and if we can understand the language and represent it in computer science, imagine the scale at which we can move, we can understand, and we can generate. We can understand proteins and the functions that are associated with them, and we can generate new proteins with new properties and functions. We can do that with generative AI now, now all of a sudden those words make sense and now they’re connecting and fired up and are now applying it to all of their fields of their own companies and see opportunity after opportunity for themselves to apply it.

I was on a talk show recently, and the host asked me, "What do you think about the dope problem?" I said, "Definitely, I feel we have too many dopes." No question about it. That's why we have a drug problem, I feel; it's because everyone has access to drugs...it's all those DRUG stores, right? Every three or four blocks, there's a big sign: "DRUGS", "Open All Night – DRUGS", "We Deliver – DRUGS", "Cut-rate DRUGS"... it's the biggest thing on their sign: "Cosmetics – Sundries – DRUGS".

Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good.

I started programming in like 76. There was not enough stuff. There was Fortran and Cobol... And Fortran. Now there's 250, 500, 800 programming languages, one new each week.

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.