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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

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

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

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

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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 greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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