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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.

Alan Kay

There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Internet Man Made Most Natural Ocean Pacific People Resource Something Think
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
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part

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