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.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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We cannot predict the future, but we can invent 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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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
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It’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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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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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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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I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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