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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.

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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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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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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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