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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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

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

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When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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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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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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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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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 fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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

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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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