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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).

Alan Kay

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic Battle One Point School Teacher Textbook View
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Before Believe Few Norma People Quite Situation Something Sort Vote
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
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
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
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
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
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
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Joss Language Predate
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
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
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding

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