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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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

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

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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 computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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

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

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

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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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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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