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

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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

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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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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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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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

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

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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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