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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.

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
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
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
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAY

Country Donanimlarini People Person
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
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
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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Back Catch Description Hardware Idea Movable Network Process Quiet
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
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
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
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
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
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

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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