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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.

Alan Kay

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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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic Battle One Point School Teacher Textbook View
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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
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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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way

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