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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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