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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

Alan Kay

Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
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
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
It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
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
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

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