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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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