This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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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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.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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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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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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