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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

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basic Battle One Point School Teacher Textbook View
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
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
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
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
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry

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