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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.

Alan Kay

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
If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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Growth Learn Letter Makem Live Personal Societal Spent Springboard Value
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
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
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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Debilitation Dumb Easy General Product Result Tend Worthless
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
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
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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Activity Computational Computer Contact Deep Enjoy Enough Equipment Fluent Literacy Make Read Write
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Ahead Come Out Real Romance Yet
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.
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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
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
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine

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