We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAY
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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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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