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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
When I first prepared this particular talk…
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First Particular Prepare Talk
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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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
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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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
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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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
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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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Gild Knowledge Lead Outlook Silver Weight

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