As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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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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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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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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 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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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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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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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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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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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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