School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
ALAN KAYAny company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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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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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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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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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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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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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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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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