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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.

Alan Kay

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Disastrous Ever First Language Learn Most Program Thing
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
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
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Different Ide Like Point View
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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Easier Future Invent Predict
In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Do Doing Kept Success Tendency
Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Change Easy Except Part
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
I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Finisher Good Hire Poor Starter
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
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
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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Certification Complain Heard Illustrious Java Program Science Undergraduate University
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
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Best Future Invent Predict Way
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try

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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