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

Alan Kay

The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
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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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
[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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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
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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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
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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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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