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“Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.”

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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at…

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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

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When I first prepared this particular talk... I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that…

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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold…

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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing…

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It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing -…

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Computer programmers do it byte by byte

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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

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

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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns…

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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even…

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With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not…

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A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

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A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place…

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I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

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Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

Tara VanDerveer

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I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by…

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The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do?…

John C. Maxwell

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