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

Alan Kay

In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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Along Element Especial Go Laughter Often Science Surprise
The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Destination Help Important Knowledge Perfume Pick Urge
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
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
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
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
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
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
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
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
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
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun

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