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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.

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.

[computing] Is Just A Fabulous Place For That, Because It's A Place Where You Don't Have To Be A Ph.d. Or Anything Else. It's A Place Where You Can Still Be An Artisan. People Are Willing To Pay You If You're Any Good At All, And You Have Plenty Of Time For Screwing Around.

Technology Is Anything Invented After You Were Born, Everything Else Is Just Stuff.