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Quite A Few People Have To Believe Something Is Normal Before It Becomes Normal - A Sort Of 'voting' Situation. But Once The Threshold Is Reached, Then Everyone Demands To Do Whatever It Is.

When I First Prepared This Particular Talk... I Realized That My Usual Approach Is Usually Critical. That Is, A Lot Of The Things That I Do, That Most People Do, Are Because They Hate Something Somebody Else Has Done, Or They Hate That Something Hasn't Been Done. And I Realized That Informed Criticism Has Completely Been Done In By The Web. 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. Bad Criticism Drives Good Criticism Out Of Circulation. You Just Can't Criticize Anything.

Humans Are Communications Junkies. We Just Can't Get Enough.

In Success There's A Tendency To Keep On Doing What You Were Doing.

If The Pros At Sun Had Had A Chance To Fix Java, The World Would Be A Much More Pleasant Place. This Is Not Secret Knowledge. It's Just Secret To This Pop Culture.