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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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