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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.

Alan Kay

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Change Eighty Perspective Point Worth
The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Being Belief Bigots Confide Human Problem Reality
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
Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Anybody Do Else Is Do What Worry
I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Arrogance Computer Ever Know Many Measure Met Nanao People Science
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
Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Debugging Done Much Other
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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Circulation Good Kind Money Out Produce Uniform
It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Long Relationship Sustained Term
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Age Fluent Fortune Learn Misfortune Read Start Three
[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
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Anything Around Born Technology
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Hardware Old People Really Serious Software
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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Bare Degree Encourage First Freedom Investigation Metamedium Representation Tool
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Before Believe Few Norma People Quite Situation Something Sort Vote
The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Belt Calculator Hard Nerd One Rule Slide Use

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