Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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