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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

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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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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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