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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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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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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.

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

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

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

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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

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

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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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