Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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