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

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

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

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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

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

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

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

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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. 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, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

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