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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

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
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
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
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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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
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
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Compute Distress Dos Hit Java Microsoft Most Since Thing
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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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
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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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
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
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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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
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
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
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare

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