An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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