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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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