"Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material."
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"In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently."
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"I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher."
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"If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied."
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"School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don’t like the idea of having different points of view,..."
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"Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough."
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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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"Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories."
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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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"In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing."