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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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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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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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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter

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