Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYSo 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.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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.
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