Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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