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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Alan Kay

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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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
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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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
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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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
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
In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Agent Complementary Function World Tool Well
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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
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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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
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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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually

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