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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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 Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well

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