A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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