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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Back Catch Description Hardware Idea Movable Network Process Quiet
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian

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