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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.

Alan Kay

I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
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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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
[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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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
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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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
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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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
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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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Decide Future Laid Out Something Track
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie

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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