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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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