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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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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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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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