There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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