But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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More Alan Kay Quotes
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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