Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAY
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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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.
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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.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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[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.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Most 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.
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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