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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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