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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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

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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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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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