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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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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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When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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

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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

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

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