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.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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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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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.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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