As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAYWe cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Artificial intelligence is what we don’t know how to do yet
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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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