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ALAN KAYA 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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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 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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