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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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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 intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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