And 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 KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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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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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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