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

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

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

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

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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