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.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.
It's OK to have a little bit of curve.
There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing.
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
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