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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.

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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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