A Change In Perspective Is Worth 80

There Is The Desire Of A Consumer Society To Have No Learning Curves. This Tends To Result In Very Dumbed-down Products That Are Easy To Get Started On, But Are Generally Worthless And/or Debilitating.

Most Creativity Is A Transition From One Context Into Another Where Things Are More Surprising. There’s An Element Of Surprise, And Especially In Science, There Is Often Laughter That Goes Along With The "aha." 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.

Don't Worry About What Anybody Else Is Going To Do. The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Invent It.

The Idea That Hardware On Networks Should Just Be Caches For Movable Process Descriptions And The Processes Themselves Goes Back Quite A Ways. There's A Real Sense In Which Ms And Apple Never Understood Networking Or Operating Systems (or What Objects Really Are), And When They Decided To Beef Up Their Oss, They Went To (different) Very Old Bad Mainframe Models Of Os Design To Try To Adapt To Personal Computers.

The Most Disastrous Thing That You Can Ever Learn Is Your First Programming Language.