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Understanding- -like Civilization, Happiness, Music, Science And A Host Of Other Great Endeavors--is Not A State Of Being, But A Manner Of Traveling. This Great Road Has No Final Destination. The Journey Itself Is The Reward.

When The Mac First Came Out, Newsweek Asked Me What I [thought] Of It. I Said: Well, It's The First Personal Computer Worth Criticizing. So At The End Of The Presentation, Steve Came Up To Me And Said: Is The Iphone Worth Criticizing? And I Said: Make The Screen Five Inches By Eight Inches, And You'll Rule The World.

In Our Society We Have Hard Nerds And Soft Nerds. The Hard Nerds Are The Ones Who Used To Have The Slide Rules At Their Belt; Now They Have Calculators. The Soft Nerds Are The Ones Who Get Violently Ill Whenever Anybody Mentions An Integral Sign.

The Flip Side Of The Coin Was That Even Good Programmers And Language Designers Tended To Do Terrible Extensions When They Were In The Heat Of Programming, Because Design Is Something That Is Best Done Slowly And Carefully.

Simple Things Should Be Simple And Complex Things Should Be Possible.