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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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