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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Alan Kay

If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Anything Else Fabulous People Place Where Will
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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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Internet Object Only Order Oriented Possible Raed Subject System Work
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
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
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think

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