The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYAnd when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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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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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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