A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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