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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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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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