The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYI think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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.
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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?
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