In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
ALAN KAYI hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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