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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.

Alan Kay

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basically One Point School Teacher Textbook View
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three
There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
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.
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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very

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