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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

Alan Kay

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
And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Been Completely Criticise Done Inform Realize
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
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Hard Nerd Society Soft
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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Compute Distress Dos Hit Java Microsoft Most Since Thing
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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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
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
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basically One Point School Teacher Textbook View
The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Back Catch Description Hardware Idea Movable Network Process Quiet
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
I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Approach Done Hate Most People Realize Someone Something Usually
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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Buil Language Lips Material
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year

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