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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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’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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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