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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.

Alan Kay

The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Activity Computational Computer Contact Deep Enjoy Enough Equipment Fluent Literacy Make Read Write
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
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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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
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
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
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
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

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