The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYThe 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 flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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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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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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