The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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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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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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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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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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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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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.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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