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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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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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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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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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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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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 future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

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

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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. 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, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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

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It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

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

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

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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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