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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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