And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYIt is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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