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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.

Alan Kay

I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
ALAN KAY

Acquire All Except Forget Knowledge Perfume Think Trick
When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Error Free Last Scale Technology Time
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Boardroom Briefcase Cavemen Hungry Just Person Scratch Surface Typical Wise
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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Already Behaviour Expose First Grade Point Try View
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Country Donanimlarini People Person
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Apple As Company Different Every Few Go Join
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Decide Future Laid Out Something Track
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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Draw Have Intelligent Need Read Rid Secretary Write
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Consumer Curve Desire Learn Society
Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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Artificial Don't Know Intelligence Yet
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
ALAN KAY

Every Technology How Manual Need Ship Special Use
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Around Basic Decide Done Franchise Happen Spread Timeshare
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
ALAN KAY

Communication Enough Get Human Junkie

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