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”.
ALAN KAY
That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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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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