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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.

Alan Kay

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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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
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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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
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
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
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
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
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
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool

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