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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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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. 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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, 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.

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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

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It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?

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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

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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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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

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