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

Alan Kay

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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Bean Blood Countries Manure Must Nature Research Time Tree
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
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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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Another Context Creativity Most Mst Surprise Thing Transition
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
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
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
If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
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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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
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
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
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge

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