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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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