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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

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

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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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

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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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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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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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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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

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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.

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

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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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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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

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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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

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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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