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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

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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. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

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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. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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