Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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