Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYI think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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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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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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 computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It 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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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 hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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