Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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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 I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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