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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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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 computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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