But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
ALAN KAYBad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The 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.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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