An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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I 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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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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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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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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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