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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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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.

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

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

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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

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

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The only way you can predict the future is to build 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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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

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

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

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

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