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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.

Alan Kay

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
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
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
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Gild Knowledge Lead Outlook Silver Weight
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
And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Adapt Bad Beef Computer Different Mainframe Model Model Decide Old Personal Try Went
In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Agent Complementary Function World Tool Well
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually

The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.

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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.

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