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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.

Alan Kay

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
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
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
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
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
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.
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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
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
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
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
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface

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