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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

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

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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

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

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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

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

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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?

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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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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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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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