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

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

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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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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

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

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

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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

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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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