Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
ALAN KAYHumans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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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.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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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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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
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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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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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