They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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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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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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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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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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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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