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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.

Alan Kay

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
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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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
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
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
When I first prepared this particular talk…
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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