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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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