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

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

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

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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

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

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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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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

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

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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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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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