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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.

Alan Kay

[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
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
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
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
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Before Believe Few Norma People Quite Situation Something Sort Vote
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
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
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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
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
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Activity Computational Computer Contact Deep Enjoy Enough Equipment Fluent Literacy Make Read Write

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