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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.

Alan Kay

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
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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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
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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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
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
The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other

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