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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.

Alan Kay

And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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Extent Known Probably Universe Violate Way
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
[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
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Basically Far Jar Java Program Tell Undergraduate Vocational
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Amateur Comparison Joke Web
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
Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Another Example Fill Perl Tiny
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Act Computer Exploit Language Like Machine Nature Protean Shape Such
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
Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Course Five Old Pipe Voice Year
Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Internet Object Only Order Oriented Possible Raed Subject System Work
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology

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