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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent 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
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
There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Apple Microsoft Network Object Operate System Real Sense Understood
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use
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
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
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
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
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Complex Possible Simple Thing
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Another Context Creativity Most Mst Surprise Thing Transition
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
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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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
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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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool

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