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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.

Alan Kay

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.
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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
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
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
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Basically Computer Degree Far Fear Java Most Science Tell Training Undergraduate Vocational
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
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
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
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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
[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
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three

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