An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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