Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
ALAN KAYIn computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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