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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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