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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
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
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Act Computer Exploit Language Like Machine Nature Protean Shape Such
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Company Enough Large Listen Research Too
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
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
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
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

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