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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict 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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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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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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