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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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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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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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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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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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

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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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

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

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

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

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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