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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.

Alan Kay

Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
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
[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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Anything Artisan Computer Else Fabulous Just Place
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Idea Java Make New Old One Think
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
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
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Bean Blood Countries Manure Must Nature Research Time Tree
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Ask Came Computer Criticizing First Mac Newsweek Out Personal Thought
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
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
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 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
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Eighty Perspective Point Worth
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

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