When I first prepared this particular talk…
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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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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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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