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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Alan Kay

Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
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
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
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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Back Catch Description Hardware Idea Movable Network Process Quiet
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
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
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
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare

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