They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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