Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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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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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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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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