They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAYDon’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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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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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’ve heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
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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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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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