And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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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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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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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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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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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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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 only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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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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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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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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