People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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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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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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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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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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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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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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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 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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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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