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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Adapt Bad Beef Computer Different Mainframe Model Model Decide Old Personal Try Went
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Internet Object Only Order Oriented Possible Raed Subject System Work
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
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
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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
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
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
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
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
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term

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