Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAYI had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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