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

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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

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

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

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Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

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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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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 Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

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The greatest single programming language ever designed

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