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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 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 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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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

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

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

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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

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

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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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

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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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

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

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

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