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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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