Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYI 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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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