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

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

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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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

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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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

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

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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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