The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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