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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.

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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent
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 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
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
[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
So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Internet Object Only Order Oriented Possible Raed Subject System Work
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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