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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.

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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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