Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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