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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

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

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

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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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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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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

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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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