Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
ALAN KAYBut 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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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