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

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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

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

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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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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

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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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I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

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

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Change is easy, except for the changed part.

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It's easier to invent the future than to predict 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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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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.

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