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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.

Alan Kay

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
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
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Before Believe Few Norma People Quite Situation Something Sort Vote
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
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
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
ALAN KAY

Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge

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