I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAYTo get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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 fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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