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.
ALAN KAYThat language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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