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

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

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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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

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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

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

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

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

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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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

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