There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYPossibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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 KAYThere will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYThere’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYPerl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYAnd 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.
ALAN KAYYazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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