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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

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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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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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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 fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.

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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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

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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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

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

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

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

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