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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Act Computer Exploit Language Like Machine Nature Protean Shape Such
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
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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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Company Enough Large Listen Research Too
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View

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