Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYAs far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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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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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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