Quotes 61 till 80 of 105.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Source: The Road Ahead (1995) -
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
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The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Source: The Road Ahead -
The future of advertising is the Internet.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
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The microprocessor is a miracle.
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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
Source: BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984 -
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
Source: The Road Ahead p. 265 -
The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?
Source: Surprised by Joy (1955) -
The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation - both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents - and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
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