Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYSo at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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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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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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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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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 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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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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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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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