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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
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I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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About Internet:
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order.
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About the Lisp programming language:
...greatest single programming language ever designed.
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Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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.
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I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were Maxwell's Equations of Software!
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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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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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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May 17, 1940
(age 83)
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