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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

Alan Kay

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAY

Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
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
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Anything Else Fabulous People Place Where Will
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
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
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity

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