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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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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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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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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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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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