This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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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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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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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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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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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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