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.
ALAN KAYSchool is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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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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Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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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’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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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 greatest single programming language ever designed
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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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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