Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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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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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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