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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.

Alan Kay

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
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Decide Future Laid Out Something Track
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
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
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
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
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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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
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
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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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding
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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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World

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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