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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.

Alan Kay

Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Before Believe Few Norma People Quite Situation Something Sort Vote
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
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
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
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
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
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
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
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
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
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
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick

Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.

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