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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

Alan Kay

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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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
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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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
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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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
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
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
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
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Anything Else Fabulous People Place Where Will
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

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