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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Decide Future Laid Out Something Track
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic Battle One Point School Teacher Textbook View
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
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
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
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
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
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
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three

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