The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYBecause 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.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYComputer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYThe real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
ALAN KAYMost software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYSun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
ALAN KAYSo I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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