Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYAnd I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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 idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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