Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYJava is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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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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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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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 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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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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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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