But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYOf course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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