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

Alan Kay

If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Challenge Fall Probably Problem Sufficient Time Work
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
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
Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Company Enough Large Listen Research Too
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
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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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
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
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
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 soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Anybody Integral Mention Nerd One Sign Soft Violent
I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Language Made Mind Object Orient Tell Term

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