People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYQuite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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