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.
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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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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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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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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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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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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