Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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 best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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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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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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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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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