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

Alan Kay

That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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Basic Beautiful Joss Language Predate
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
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Battle Different Idea Point View
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
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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Drink Enjoy Friend Grow New Now Old Wine
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
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
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
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
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
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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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology

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