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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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