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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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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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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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