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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.

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
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
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
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
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.
ALAN KAY

Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
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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Every Technology How Manual Need Ship Special Use
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
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Company Enough Large Listen Research Too
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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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAY

Act Computer Exploit Language Like Machine Nature Protean Shape Such

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