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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

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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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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 result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

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

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

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

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

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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

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

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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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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