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And 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.

Alan Kay

It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
[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
This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Culture Knowledge Pop Secret
In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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Allow Computer Differently Explosion Off Product Program Set Software Under
If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Country never Utopian
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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Any Bad Detail Device Dynamical Medium Other Simulate User
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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Brick Brute Country Force Million Most Much Pyramid Slave Software Thousand Today Very
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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Context Element Job More One Really Remind Think
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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After Anything Born Invent Technology
So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Eight End Five Inch iPhone Presentation ule World
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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Bean Blood Countries Manure Must Nature Research Time Tree
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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Even Good Love Own People Require Science Society Theory Thinker Thought Try
People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Anything Else Fabulous People Place Where Will
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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Chance Fix Java More Much Place Pleasant Pros Sun World
But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Demand Everyone Once Reach Threshold
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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Basically Computer Degree Far Fear Java Most Science Tell Training Undergraduate Vocational

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