In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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[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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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