There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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 hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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”.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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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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