Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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