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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay (1971)

Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

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The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

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