If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYThis 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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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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