People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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