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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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

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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

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

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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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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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

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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

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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. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?

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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

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School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

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