Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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