An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
ALAN KAYKnowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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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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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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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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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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