An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYIn our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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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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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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