Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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