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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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[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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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