Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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 had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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