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

Alan Kay

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
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
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
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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Boardroom Briefcase Cavemen Hungry Just Person Scratch Surface Typical Wise
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Decide Future Laid Out Something Track
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
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
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
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
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
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine

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