We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYAnd 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.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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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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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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