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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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”.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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