Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYSo 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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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