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Context is worth 80 IQ points.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
The greatest single programming language ever designed
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
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.