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• Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
• Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
• Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
• The greatest single programming language ever designed
• Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
• I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
• Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
• Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
• In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
• The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
• I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured…
• Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us…

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