I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
ALAN KAYThere is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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