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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.
When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.
I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative
Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.
If you have no doubt in what you are about to do, you are not pushing yourself hard enough.
The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.
Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative.
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.
For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.
An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
None of these devices address that women keep track of many peoples lives, not just their own.
The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.
We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.
None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.
I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
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.