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

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

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

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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.

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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 computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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

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

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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

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

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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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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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If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

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