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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Alan Kay

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
[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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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
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
It 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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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
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
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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