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

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

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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

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

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

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

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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

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