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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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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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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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