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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.

Alan Kay

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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Boardroom Briefcase Cavemen Hungry Just Person Scratch Surface Typical Wise
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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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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
That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Joss Language Predate
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
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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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
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
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
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

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