The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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