Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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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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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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