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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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