Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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