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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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