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.
ALAN KAYBut once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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