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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.

Alan Kay

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
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
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
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
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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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
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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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
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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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAY

Activity Computational Computer Contact Deep Enjoy Enough Equipment Fluent Literacy Make Read Write

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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