A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
ALAN KAYThe 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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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.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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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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The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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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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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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