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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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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 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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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 real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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