Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYMuch of the debugging has to be done by others.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYWhen the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
ALAN KAYAnd to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYThis is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
ALAN KAYBasic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
ALAN KAYThe Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
ALAN KAYThe idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
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