The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
ALAN KAY
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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