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.
ALAN KAYIt’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
-
-
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAY -
They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
ALAN KAY -
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
ALAN KAY -
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
ALAN KAY -
I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAY -
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
ALAN KAY -
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
ALAN KAY -
I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
ALAN KAY -
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
ALAN KAY -
As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
ALAN KAY -
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
ALAN KAY -
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.
ALAN KAY -
School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAY -
We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAY -
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
ALAN KAY