An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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