Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYThe computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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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.
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In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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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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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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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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