There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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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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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Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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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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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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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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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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