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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

Alan Kay

Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Always Basic Better Language Purpose Surface
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
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
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
Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Enough Extend Man Medium Powerful Reach Topple World
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 result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Able Beyond Come Conclusion Destruction Document Negative Positive Prove Result
I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
[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
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
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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Civilization Endeavour Host Manner Science Stae Traveling Understanding
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Create First Important Problem Solve Technology
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Coffee Computer Convert Machine Scientist Urine
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
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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Computer Idea Instrument Music Simply
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
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
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
When I first prepared this particular talk…
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First Particular Prepare Talk
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Before Believe Few Norma People Quite Situation Something Sort Vote
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
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
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
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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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think

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