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Technology has come a long way since PayPal.
Usenet is 'the last uncensored mass medium.'
One man's constant is another man's variable.
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
Every new idea in any field needs protection.
Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.
Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.
You need the willingness to fail all the time.
The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.
We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.
I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
It is easier to apologize than to get permission.
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
The system should treat all user input as sacred.
We just want to have great people working for us.
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate.
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
The concept of the Web is of universal readership.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.
Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.
Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.
There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.