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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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[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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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