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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Alan Kay

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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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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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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[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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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