The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYThe result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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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 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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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 result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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