To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
ALAN KAYAnd 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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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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.
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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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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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