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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.

Alan Kay

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
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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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
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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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
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
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
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 biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
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
The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
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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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible

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