I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
ALAN KAYIt’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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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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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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