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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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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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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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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

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

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

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

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

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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

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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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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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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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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

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

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