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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Future Invent IT Predict
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Anything Bad Criticism Good Out
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Class First Java Language Make Microsystem People Right Sun
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
Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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Communication Enough Get Human Junkie
There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Always Ambiguity
[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
To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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Against Aim Attain Literacy Magic Medium Rather Work
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
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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Build Future IT Only Predict Way
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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All Art Material Must Romance Way Well
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Artificial Feel Inferior Intelligence Some People Worry
The greatest single programming language ever designed
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Design Great Language Program Singer
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Basically One Point School Teacher Textbook View
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

Hardware Old People Really Serious Software

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