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

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

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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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

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

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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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

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

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