Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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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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