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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.

Alan Kay

There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Back Catch Description Hardware Idea Movable Network Process Quiet
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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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
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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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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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
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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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Another Context Creativity Most Mst Surprise Thing Transition
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
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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Boardroom Briefcase Cavemen Hungry Just Person Scratch Surface Typical Wise
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
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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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent

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