And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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