Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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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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