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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. 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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

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

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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. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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

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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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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. 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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