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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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[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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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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