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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

Alan Kay

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Back Catch Description Hardware Idea Movable Network Process Quiet
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
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
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
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
This 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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless

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