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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Alan Kay

So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Already Amybe Book Grade Lie Read Teacher Time
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
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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Act Computer Exploit Language Like Machine Nature Protean Shape Such
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Bean Blood Countries Manure Must Nature Research Time Tree
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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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Best Careful Coin Designer Even Extension Flip Good Heat Language Programme Side Tend Terrible
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Company Enough Large Listen Research Too
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
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
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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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge
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
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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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time

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