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

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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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