Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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