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

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
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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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
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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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Bean Blood Countries Manure Must Nature Research Time Tree
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
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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Every Technology How Manual Need Ship Special Use
I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
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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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Company Enough Large Listen Research Too

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