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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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