Hmm... I can't seem to find the original, but I quoted this phrase in a presentation I gave three years ago: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/simon/javascript-libraries-the-big-picture" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/simon/javascript-libraries-the-big...</a> (slide 5)<p>I think it's something I heard him say out loud in one of his earlier lectures at Yahoo. More recently, he's stated that "he used to think the browser was the most hostile programming environment ever devised, but then he found out about mobile programming" - <a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2007/jw-09-rwekeynote.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2007/jw-09-rwekeyno...</a>