The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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