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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.

Alan Kay

It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very
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
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
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Every Technology How Manual Need Ship Special Use
Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
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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Anything Else Fabulous People Place Where Will
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View

Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.

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