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Alan Kay

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
That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Joss Language Predate
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
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
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three

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