People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYMost creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking 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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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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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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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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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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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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