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

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

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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

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

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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

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When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It's kind of a Gresham's Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can't criticize anything.

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

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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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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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?

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