I Hired Finishers Because I'm A Good

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?

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.

When The Mac First Came Out, Newsweek Asked Me What I [thought] Of It. I Said: Well, It's The First Personal Computer Worth Criticizing. 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.

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.

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.