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

Alan Kay

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Amass Communication General Last Medium Naive Surgeon Television Warning World
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
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
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
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
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Book Couple Got Hundred School Time
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
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
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
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Boardroom Briefcase Cavemen Hungry Just Person Scratch Surface Typical Wise

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