Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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So 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’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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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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