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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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