The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
ALAN KAYIf the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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