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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class 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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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