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.
ALAN KAYThe 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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