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Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
The Pixar name means more than any other name. It's very important to us to keep that name at a high level.
This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service.
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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.
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time.
If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.
Good judgment is what you get from experience, which is what you have immediately after using poor judgement.
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.
The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things.
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.
If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.