In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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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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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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