They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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