There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
ALAN KAYThe biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
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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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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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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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