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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.

Alan Kay

In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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 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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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