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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
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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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Compute Distress Dos Hit Java Microsoft Most Since Thing
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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