Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYThe Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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