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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

Alan Kay

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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
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
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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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
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
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
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
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term

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