The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYEvery technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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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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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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