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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.

Alan Kay

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Gild Knowledge Lead Outlook Silver Weight
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
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
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
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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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
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
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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